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#robotics Preprint Oct 2026

Educating future engineers about LLMs: A scalable workshop

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into engineering workflows, students require hands-on experience to learn how to collaborate with them critically. This paper presents a scalable gamified workshop designed for engineering Master's students to practice human-AI collaboration in navigation plan...

R. Zhang, J. D. de Winter, T. Dicke et al. · 0 citations
#natural language process... Preprint Open access Oct 2026

SharedKV-BT: Node-Local Typed Decisions for Behavior-Tree Agents

Agent tasks require sequences of interdependent decisions. Autoregressive models support more flexible decision interfaces than conventional classifiers but incur the latency of token-by-token generation. Recent shared-prefix methods reduce this cost by reusing encoded context and scoring multiple decisions in parallel...

Naoki Wake, Justin Wagle · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Visual Feature-Based World Models via Residual Latent Action

World models predict future transitions from observations and actions. Existing works predominantly focus on image generation only. Visual feature-based world models, on the other hand, predict future visual features instead of raw video pixels, offering a promising alternative that is more efficient and less prone to...

Xinyu Zhang, Zhengtong Xu, Yutian Tao et al. · 0 citations

Generalizable Dense Reward for Long-Horizon Robotic Tasks

VLLR is proposed, a dense reward framework combining an extrinsic reward from Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) for task progress recognition, and an intrinsic reward based on policy self-certainty based on policy self-certainty for PPO finetuning.

Si-Long Yong, Stephen Sheng, Carl Qi et al. · 3 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Sep 2025

HARL-A: An Extensible Benchmark Framework for Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Adversarial Reinforcement Learning in IsaacLab

HARL-A is presented, an open-source, actively maintained framework built on IsaacLab that enables scalable training and benchmarking of adversarial policies across morphologically diverse robot teams with any number of teams and any mix of robot morphologies per team.

Isaac Peterson, Christopher Allred, Jacob Morrey et al. · 2 citations · ⚡1
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

QF3: Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients

Flow policies have become a standard policy class for learning robot behaviors from demonstrations, but reinforcement learning is still critical for improving pre-trained flow policies or learning them from scratch through interaction. We introduce QF3 (Fast Flow RL with Filtered Q-Gradients), an online off-policy RL a...

Chung Min Kim, Brent Yi, David McAllister et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Compact Robot Policies Need Fine-Grained Visual Representations

Multi-task manipulation policies differ in architecture, scale, and pretrained priors all at once, so published comparisons cannot attribute performance to any single component. We argue that most of it comes from the visual representation, and that parameter scale and generative priors are largely incidental. To test...

Na Chen, Run-Qiu Yang, Jia-Wei Tang et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Oct 2026

Beyond Waypoint Regression: Query-Based Cost Learning over Reachable Ego Futures for End-to-End Driving

End-to-end planners based on waypoint regression achieve strong open-loop accuracy, but they primarily learn to mimic expert geometry and remain difficult to adapt to deployment-time safety constraints. We propose a query-based cost-learning framework that estimates bounded costs for dynamically reachable ego trajector...

Ahmed Abouelazm, Rupert Polley, Qing-Yuan Zhang et al. · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

Energy-Aware Path Following: Comparative Analysis of Reinforcement Learning and NMPC for Electric Vehicles

Path-following control strategies typically follow the bi-objective optimization dilemma: minimizing deviations from a reference path while maintaining smooth speed profiles. The latter objective is especially relevant for Electric Vehicles (EVs), since their limited driving range can be extended by recovering energy t...

Mohamed Sabaa, M. Emam · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Learning Grasp Targeting from Point Clouds for Log Pile Clearing on a Hydraulic Crane

In mill yards, log loaders clear dense piles by a sequence of bundle grasps: hundreds of logs rest in contact, and each removal changes the pile available to the next grasp. A learned policy chooses where to place and orient the grapple from unsegmented point clouds and runs on a trailer-mounted hydraulic forestry cran...

George Sideris, Lucas Bessai, Heshan Fernando et al. · 0 citations
#artificial intelligence Preprint Open access Oct 2026

Modeling Latent Disturbances for Robust Decision-Making in World Models

In this paper, we study robust decision-making in the latent space of world models (WMs). Robust optimization is a mathematical framework where, given explicitly specified dynamics and physically meaningful disturbances, a robot can select actions that remain effective even under worst-case disturbances. However, apply...

Junwon Seo, Andrea Bajcsy · 0 citations
#machine learning Preprint Oct 2026

The Robot Is Not Its Description: GaugeBench for Representation Robustness in Morphology-Aware Policies

A robot description does more than specify a physical mechanism: it also encodes arbitrary conventions, such as joint-axis direction, joint-angle zero, and the order and names of links and joints. Morphology-aware policies consume interfaces built from these descriptions, yet cross-embodiment evaluation typically chang...

Rahath Malladi, Arshia Sangwan, Rajesh K. Gupta et al. · 0 citations

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MIT News · Artificial Intelligence Nov 5, 2026

Clearing up a robot’s fuzzy memory

A new system identifies and corrects unreliable object descriptions stored in a robot’s memory, improving the robot’s ability to interact with its environment.

Google DeepMind Blog Oct 13, 2026

Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics

Discover Gemini 4 Argon for robotics: leading the ERQA benchmark with physical reasoning, zero-shot control, Real2Sim, and agentic workflows.

Microsoft Research Blog Sep 23, 2026

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

Robots are getting smarter, but how can their hardware match that growth? New Microsoft Research findings show that moving AI inference beyond the robot can improve task success, boost efficiency, and support more advanced physical AI workloads. The post Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics appeared first on Microsoft Research.

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